Handley Margaret A, Abascal Miguel Lucía, Thompson Lisa Marie, Velloza Jennifer
Division of Global Health and Infectious Disease Epidemiology, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Institute for Global Health Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Bundesgesundheitsblatt Gesundheitsforschung Gesundheitsschutz. 2025 Jun 5. doi: 10.1007/s00103-025-04079-5.
Addressing public health challenges through equitable, evidence-based strategies remains a pressing global need. Implementation science bridges research and practice, offering methods to improve intervention design, delivery, and evaluation. Concurrently, community-engaged research embeds equity and trust into public health initiatives. This paper introduces selected community engagement methods and related implementation science approaches to address characteristic common constraints in public health practice, illustrated with real-world examples. Adapting the Knowledge to Action framework, we present a discussion of community-engaged methods and accompanying case studies. The discussion follows four phases present in applied public health research: (1) identifying and defining the problem, (2) designing and modifying the intervention, (3) evaluating the intervention, and (4) communicating and disseminating findings. For each phase, we highlight common barriers, recommend methods, and present case studies such as rapid qualitative methods, human-centered design, and participatory data analysis. Case studies demonstrate these methods' effectiveness in addressing common constraints. These approaches ensured that interventions were culturally tailored, contextually relevant, and evidence-based.
通过公平、基于证据的策略应对公共卫生挑战仍然是全球紧迫的需求。实施科学架起了研究与实践之间的桥梁,提供了改进干预措施设计、实施和评估的方法。同时,社区参与研究将公平和信任融入公共卫生倡议。本文介绍了选定的社区参与方法和相关的实施科学方法,以应对公共卫生实践中常见的典型限制,并辅以实际案例说明。我们采用“知识付诸行动”框架,对社区参与方法及相关案例研究进行讨论。讨论遵循应用公共卫生研究中的四个阶段:(1)识别和界定问题;(2)设计和修改干预措施;(3)评估干预措施;(4)交流和传播研究结果。对于每个阶段,我们突出常见障碍、推荐方法,并展示如快速定性方法、以人为本的设计和参与式数据分析等案例研究。案例研究证明了这些方法在应对常见限制方面的有效性。这些方法确保干预措施符合文化特点、与具体情境相关且基于证据。